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New Orange Box Commercial

The Rock Paper Shotgun logo repeated multiple times on a purple background
Image credit: Rock Paper Shotgun

A very strange trailer for The Orange Box has appeared on HalfLife2.net. It looks like this:

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It's an odd beast. According to HalfLife2.net it was sent to them by Valve, and it's clearly made with a wedge of money. But it doesn't really seem to say or do anything. What's the message? The Orange Box is from outerspace? It will break your property? Presumably, "It's here" is the message we're supposed to take. But since it contains five of the best PC games there are, maybe that should be the focus of its promotion? Who knows.

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